Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 gets compared against the company’s previous flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
With the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 officially here, it is time to compare it to Qualcomm’s previous flagship smartphone SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and see what level of improvements were made. Qualcomm was rumored to switch foundries from Samsung to TSMC, as the latter’s 4nm was reported to be superior in every way. That appears to be the case here because not only is the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 faster on its fastest core, but even the ones designed for power-efficient get a clock speed increase. This shows that switching to a better manufacturing process has a multitude of benefits. Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Brings Upgraded Performance to Mid-Range Phones, With up to 20% Faster GPU, LPDDR5 RAM Support, Wi-Fi 6E, More
In our previous comparison, where we pitted the Snapdragon 888 Plus against the Snapdragon 888, the only change Qualcomm made to the faster SoC was upping the Cortex-X1’s clock speed to 2.995GHz, whereas the Cortex-X1 running in the Snapdragon 888 operated at 2.84GHz. With the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, you get clock speed upgrades on both the CPU and GPU sides. Take a look at the breakdown below to get more information. Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 – One Cortex-X2 running at 3.00GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores running at 2.50GHz, and four Cortex-A510 cores running at 1.
